Pope Leo warns of AI threat to humanity at start of three-day France visit
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THE AI ANGLE
Conditioning daily life and prompting concerns over dehumanisationPope Leo warned French and international leaders that artificial intelligence threatens human dignity if developed without ethics. He argued that computational systems risk reducing human lives to measures of efficiency. His speeches direct scholars and policymakers to link technology regulation to moral education.
THE TEACHING ANGLE
Students can debate whether evaluating people by criteria of computational efficiency leads society to discard those deemed unproductive.Read the original at theguardian.com Generate teaching or study materials
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